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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

‘Grave concern’ over lack of safe and legal routes to UK for vulnerable people still trapped in Afghanistan

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The UK government has been told to act “as a matter of urgency” to offer vulnerable people at risk of persecution from the Taliban to safety in Britain under its designated Afghan resettlement scheme.

Twenty-three NGOs including the British Red Cross and the Refugee Council have penned a strongly-worded letter to the home secretary expressing “grave concern” over the lack of safe and legal routes available for vulnerable people still in Afghanistan to reach the UK.

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